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Other senators are expressing hope that the Senate will become more functional under President Biden, who served 36 years in the upper chamber before becoming Barack Obama
“Everything is possible. You know, we have, we have administrations come and go, sometimes every four years, sometimes every eight years, and we can work with Democratic administrations and vice versa,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski
McConnell regularly shut Schumer out of planning the Senate agenda in recent years. Most notably, he declined to negotiate a bipartisan organizing resolution for former President Trump
For months last year, McConnell refused to meet with Schumer and Speaker Nancy Pelosi
By Rebecca Beitsch and Rachel Frazin - 01/21/21 02:08 PM EST
Some Western Republicans have launched a longshot bid to block President Biden’s executive orders to rejoin the Paris Climate Accord and revoking the permit for the Keystone pipeline.
The lawmakers, many from big energy-producing states, plan to introduce two pieces of legislation that would give Congress a say in the decisions.
“I urge President Biden to do what the Obama administration refused to do and submit the Paris Agreement to the Senate for consideration as required under the Constitution,” Sen. Steve Daines
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The executive order signed by Biden, the third of 17 that he signed on his first day in office, will formally recommit the U.S. to the global agreement in 30 days, ending the U.S. status as the only country in the world not participating in the deal.
By Ellen Mitchell - 01/21/21 12:07 PM EST
The Army falsely denied for days that the brother of former national security adviser Michael Flynn was listening in on a key phone call during the Pentagon’s response to the Jan. 6 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol, The Washington Post reported.
It was not untoward for Lt. Gen. Charles Flynn to be on the call, given his role as the Army’s deputy chief of staff for operations, plans and training. The Army’s initial denial of his participation, however, raises questions as to the transparency of the Pentagon in revealing the facts surrounding that day.
A few days later after the trial, Biden could re-engage from a foundation of trust. Having heard their local needs back home, he could center his COVID relief proposals around those needs.
Given a choice between building trust or a cold call asking Republican senators to support trillions in new spending, which seems more natural for Joe Biden? Which seems more likely to get Republicans to break from their caucus without painful concessions? The answer is obvious.
Beyond these private conversations, Biden’s public embrace of a Senate trial would advance his policy agenda by pumping up his biggest supporters instead of deflating them. A CBS poll this week shows double-digit support for impeachment including a majority of independents and 88 percent of Democrats.